Satapatha Bramhana Part 05

SR No.: 007680
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1900
Total Pages: 2017
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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VEDIC HYMNS.
6. His, the fortunate god's, appearance is excellent, and most brilliant among mortals. Like the bright,
heated butter of the cow (the appearance) of the | god is lovely, like the bountifulness of a milch-cow.
7. Threel are those highest, true, and lovely births of this god Agni. Being enveloped in the infinite 2 he has come hither, the bright, brilliant, shining Aryan.
8. He, the messenger, longs for all seats, the Hotri with the golden chariot, with the lovely tongue, with the red horses, of marvellous appearance, brilliant, always lovely like an assembly abundant in food.
9. He, the kinsman of sacrifice, has enlightened men". They lead him forward by a great rope ?. He dwells in his (the mortal's) dwelling, accomplishing (his task). The god has obtained the companionship of the mortal.
10. May this Agni, the knowing one, lead us to the god-given treasure which belongs to him? That (treasure) which all the immortals have created by their thought, which Dyaus, the father, the begetter (has created): that real (treasure) they have besprinkled ?
II. He has been born in the dwellings as the first, at the bottom of the great (air) , in the womb of this air, footless, headless, hiding both his ends, drawing towards himself (his limbs ?), in the nest of the bull 3.
12. The host came forth wonderfully at first, in the womb of Rita, in the nest of the bull, lovely and young, of marvellous appearance, and brilliant s. Seven friends were born for the bull.
13. Here our human fathers have sat down,
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